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Outer Boroughs - these were not part of the County of London but remained in their original counties until 1965.

New (London) Borough Old Boroughs/Urban Districts
Barking and Dagenham Essex: Barking, most of Dagenham (rest to Redbridge)
Barnet Herts: Chipping Barnet (Urban District), East Barnet (UD).
Middlesex: Finchley, Hendon, Friern Barnet (UD).
Bexley Kent : Bexley, Erith, Clayford (UD), Sidcup from Chislehurst and Sidcup (UD)
Brent Middlesex: Wembley, Willesden
Bromley Kent: Orpington, Penge, Chislehurst from Chislehurst and Sicup (UD)
Croydon Surrey: Croydon, Coulsdon and Purley (UD)
Ealing Middlesex: Acton, Ealing, Southall
Enfield Middlesex: Edmonton, Enfield, Southgate
Haringey Middlesex
Harrow Middlesex
Havering Essex: Hornchurch (UD), Romford
Hillingdon Middlesex: Uxbridge, Hayes and Harlington (UD), Ruislip-Northwood (UD), Yiewsley and West Drawyon (UD)
Hounslow Middlesex
Kingston Upon Thames Surrey: Kingston, Malden and Combe, Surbiton
Merton Surrey: Mitcham, Wimbledon, Merton and Morden (UD)
Newham Essex: East Ham, West Ham, Barking (west of River Roding), Woolwich (north of Thames)
Redbridge Essex: Ilford, Wanstead, Woodford, northern part of Dagenham, part of Chigwell (UD)
Richmond upon Thames Surrey: Barnes, Richmond upon Thames, Twickenham
Sutton Surrey: Beddington, Carshalton (UD), Cheam, Wallington
Waltham Forest Middlesex and Essex: Chingford, Leyton, Walthamstow

secretlondon, and morwen 14/9/03

Borough Executive Party Council make-up
Barking & Dag Labour 42 Lab, 4 Residents, 3 LD, 2 Con
Barnet Con Lab 24, Con 33, LD 6
Bexley Labour Lab 32, Con 30, LD 1
Brent Labour Lab 35, Con 16, LD 9
Bromley Con Lab 6, Con 41, LD 13
Camden Lab 35 Lab, Con 11, LD 8
Croydon Labour Lab 37, Con 32, LD 1
Ealing Labour Lab 48, Con 17, LD 4
Enfield Con Lab 24, Con 39
Greenwich Labour Lab 38, Con 9, LD 4
Hackney Labour Lab 45, Con 9, LD 3
Hamm & Fulham Labour 28 Lab, 18 Con
Haringey Labour Lab 42, LD 15
Harrow Labour Lab 31, Con 29, LD 3
Havering Con Lab 9, Con 26, LD 1, Other 18
Hillingdon Con Lab 27, Con 31, LD 7
Hounslow Labour Lab 36, Con 15, LD 5, Other 4
Islington LD 10 Lab, 38 LD, 0 Con
Ken & Chel Con 42 Con, 12 Lab
Kingston LD Lab 3, Con 15, LD 30
Lambeth joint LD/Con 28 LD, 28 Lab, Con 7
Lewisham Labour Lab 45, Con 2, LD 4, Other 3
Merton Labour Lab 32, Con 25, LD 0, Other 3
Newham Labour Lab 59, Other 1
Redbridge Con Lab 21, Con 33, LD 9
Richmond Con Lab 0, Con 39, LD 15
Southwark LD Lab 28, Con 5, LD 30
Sutton LD Lab 3, Con 8, LD 43
Tower Hamlets Labour Lab 35, LD 16
Waltham Forest joint Labour/LD Lab 29, Con 18, LD 13
Wandsworth Con Lab 10, Con 50
Westminster Con Lab 12, Con 48

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[edit] Smaller Map

Is there any way to shrink the map, or get a smaller map? The page doesn't quite fit into an 800x600 Explorer window.


[edit] Former units

Are the remaining selection of former municipal and other components going to be developed, rather than redirecting to the modern geographical places?

I will add some details as and when they are (as I "collect" historical survivals etc).

Jackiespeel 18:25, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Hello. Some have already been started and were hiding:
The rest could all make good articles. MRSC 18:33, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wow, that's a lot of boroughs

Why do you Londoners need so many? New York does just fine with five of 'em! 204.52.215.107 21:58, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, not a bad question, but it's been a rather different pattern of development. Brooklyn was a whole other city until 1898, after all. London has never had to absorb a complete rival city, really. It's also worth noting that an NYC borough corresponds to a US county. Equating this with Britain (it's a bit facile, because our counties differ, but still...), the true equivalent of your five boroughs would be the subsumed areas of nearby counties that became part of London in 1899 - then lost more area later in 1965) - all of Middlesex by 1965, plus parts of Kent, Essex, Herts, Surrey - curiously enough, six entities counting London itself... (In fact, only five in 1899 - none of Essex was included until 1965 - so there you go, 1899 London consisted of five 'counties' just like NYC...)
Interesting to note that NYC and London both underwent significant reorganisation in 1898-99, hadn't realised the parallels. Tarquin Binary 02:15, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] [edit] The percentage of ethinicity is utterly wrong for nearly all of the London boroughs and now some1 has changed it so you cannoy edit it

something needs to be done —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jjbb66 (talk • contribs) 23:26, 9 December 2007 (UTC)